"A thimble of spool is passsed from a young maiden to her suitor. Afer he has killed the Minotaur he'll let the thread guide him out of the laybrinthe and into her arms. In Barbara Meter's Ariadne, the tension of weaving - weaving romance, plots and escapes-- builds inside of the light-dense textured imagery of a spinny wheel and its mysterous operator."
-Cauleen Smith

Ariadne

The constant movement of the wheels, threads, sprockets, feet and hands suggests restlessness, and this is paralleled by the soundtrack. The unknown woman could be Gretchen from Faust, hopelessly in love or Ariadne who gave Theseus the thread to find his way out of labyrinth or perhaps she is one of the fates, weaving destiny… Enlarged from Super-8 to 35mm, the film is very grainy, in itself an homage to the medium of film which is also emphasized by the depiction of all kinds of turning machines, both in image and sound.

"Ariadne is a tactile hymn to longing restlessness and desire. [...] the film's own accumulated inner rhythm deftly suggest the cycles of renewal and reinvention." -Media City 12- International Festival of Experimental Film & Video Art